Boemo Diale

Boemo Diale (b. 2000) is a painter and sculptor who combines media to engage in a playful and dynamic historical dialogue with traditional art. Focusing on feminism, bodily autonomy, and the response to mental illness, her work remains light-hearted and bright. She utilizes symbolism and abstraction in her vibrant figures to draw positive reflections on heavy subjects.

Boemo Diale (b. 2000) did an internship at David Krut Workshop (DKW) in July 2022, after having met with David Krut at the Turbine Art Fair in 2021. At the time, she was an Honours student at Wits University studying Film and Television, and she undertook an internship to see how print could influence her practice. Diale's first show with David Krut, titled Can I Play? was held at the 151 Gallery in February 2023. The exhibition presented a series of prints created during her internship at DKW alongside paintings. 2025 saw Diale working collaboratively with DKW printer Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim on a new series of etchings and monotypes.  Her work has been featured in group shows at David Krut Projects and, most recently, at the Brooklyn Art Fair and in our New York Gallery as part of South African Artists in New York, our ongoing initiative to showcase South African talent in the US. Boemo grew up navigating different racial and socio-political structures in Rustenburg and the suburbs of Johannesburg. As an exploration of identity, generational trauma, dreams and manifestations, the artist’s practice is both highly personal and speaks to the broader cultural inheritance of South African women. Diale’s visual narration takes on a dream-like articulation, her figures often appear caught within the confines of a vessel or pushed up against the borders of her painted surface.   Voluptuous obsidian bodies and more traditional feminine forms take turns resisting against and then complying with the limitations of her iridescent primordial environments. Tropical silhouettes and vivid graffitied universes merge with Diale’s playful, bright, layered use of paint; however, beyond the light-hearted immediacy of her work lies a fierce questioning of her sense of place and ability to effect change through her art. Diale’s work on film, canvas, and paper is strongly impacted by her desire to connect with her maternal lineage and tell the inter-generational story of African women. Diale can introduce representations from her personal family archive into the whimsical interior scenes, creating a type of push-and-pull between the artist’s reality and her envisaged world

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BOEMO DIALE: EXPANDING VISUAL VOCABULARY WITH DAVID KRUT ARTS ​
May. 12, 2025

BOEMO DIALE: EXPANDING VISUAL VOCABULARY WITH DAVID KRUT ARTS  Written by Lungile NgcoboCollaborative Printer: Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim    Boemo Diale working on an etching...

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David Krut Projects at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair
Mar. 28, 2025

Established in the West Chelsea Building in 2001, David Krut Projects Artspace, New York continues to connect the David Krut...

Tags: Arts on Main, David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects New York, Exhibition
Defining Divine: New works from Boemo Diale
Jan. 12, 2024

"When I speak of the spiritual, I refer to the recognition within everyone that there is a place of mystery...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main
The Artist’s Library – Boemo Diale ‘Can I Play?’
Mar. 1, 2023

Written by Danijela Cook While perusing the bookshop shelves to create a display corner for Boemo Diale’s exhibition it seemed...

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Boemo Diale – Manifestations in Print
Jan. 31, 2023

Boemo Diale with one of her paintings. Image courtesy of the artist. Boemo Diale met David Krut at the Turbine...

Tags: Arts on Main, David Krut Print Workshop, Monotype
Printmaking, Art and Film: Boemo Diale on her internship at the David Krut Workshop, Arts on Main
Sep. 15, 2022

Written by Boemo Diale My first day in the project space was spent mostly observing and watching. The space itself...

Tags: Arts on Main, Boemo Diale, David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects Arts on Main, David Krut Projects Johannesburg, David Krut Workshop, Internship, Linocut, Monotype, Printmaking

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